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> The small piles would have 1000 notes in them, which is easy to check in a day. By the time you could even buy an 8-bit home computer for couple hundred doll
by genera1 6y ago
> The small piles would have 1000 notes in them, which is easy to check in a day.
By the time you could even buy an 8-bit home computer for couple hundred dollars, store all the serial numbers on a floppy and simply search through them once per day
- OscarCunningham 6y agoThat would let you check instantly if you had that dollar, but you'd then have difficulty physically finding it.
- llampx 6y agoCreate an index. Sort the notes into sets of 1000 and label them, add the label as a column into your Foxpro database.
- mywittyname 6y agoMost likely scenario, you never look sort through it again. Least likely scenario, you get $30,000 (probably like $280,000 in today's money) to dig through them all one more time.
- Dylan16807 6y agoThat would take so much more time than sorting each batch of 1000 notes, and sorted notes let you do your daily check in less than a minute.